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All the ideas for 'Difference and Repetition', 'Commentary on the Metaphysics' and 'Our Knowledge of Mathematical Objects'

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12 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

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Understanding begins with the notion of being and essence [Avicenna]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy

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'Difference' refers to that which eludes capture [Deleuze, by May]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / c. Neo-logicism

9224	Proceduralism offers a version of logicism with no axioms, or objects, or ontological commitment [Fine,K]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / a. Constructivism

9222	The objects and truths of mathematics are imperative procedures for their construction [Fine,K]

9223	My Proceduralism has one simple rule, and four complex rules [Fine,K]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being

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Ontology can be continual creation, not to know being, but to probe the unknowable [Deleuze]

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'Being' is univocal, but its subject matter is actually 'difference' [Deleuze]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being

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Ontology does not tell what there is; it is just a strange adventure [Deleuze, by May]

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Being is a problem to be engaged, not solved, and needs a new mode of thinking [Deleuze, by May]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Simples

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The simple's whatness is its very self [Avicenna]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 3. Matter of an Object

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The ultimate material of things has the unity of total formlessness [Avicenna]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 2. Types of Essence

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An essence can either be universal (in the mind) or singular (in concrete particulars) [Avicenna, by Panaccio]